This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

A village of art and exotic creations.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.